Green Energy Does Not Work

San Francisco Chronicle, there may be a business there. “SolarCity Gets $1 Billion Federal Housing Contract.” This is from September 8th, last week: “The federal government on Wednesday tapped San Mateo’s SolarCity for the largest residential solar project in history, a $1 billion effort to install panels at 124 U.S. military bases during the next five years. SolarCity will place solar systems on as many as 160,000 military housing buildings, base warehouses and administrative buildings. The first installations, at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, are already under way. ‘The scale of this is absolutely massive,’ said Lyndon Rive, SolarCity’s chief executive officer. ‘It’s equal to all the solar the country’s installed in the last 30 years.'”

Well, I would think, my gosh, I got a little tea business, imagine what would happen if I could get a billion-dollar grant? Think about that. I wouldn’t have to be worried about shipping costs. I wouldn’t have to worry about revving up on big promotion days, buying a bunch of extra servers and so forth to handle the load. I wouldn’t have to worry about business things at all. I wouldn’t have to worry about Solyndra because the government shut them down. I’d have to know I’m next, by the way.

You know, the Solyndra guys have to be asking, “What the hell did we do wrong here? You gave us 523 million bucks, and now our CEO’s house is being raided. You invite us into meetings. You, Obama, come out, you tout us as the future, now you’ve shut us down and you give this clown here a billion dollars. The military, you actually want to help the military?” I thought we were cutting the military budget. “The military is America’s largest consumer of energy and has set a goal of getting 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.” So they’re actually forcing the military to do this. That’s what this is. But there is a business there. Ha. Billion-dollar federal housing contract, solar panels, military bases. Easy.